Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish’s annual fiesta includes games, food and live entertainment under the big tent. Freedom New Mexico Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish is bringing the sights of Hawaii to Clovis for the annual Fiesta this weekend. The parish hosts the event each year as the church’s main fundraiser. This year, the funds are earmarked for new pews for the sanctuary. “Our pews squeak worse than our church mice,” Helen Martinez laughed. Martinez, a member of the church and event...
Free Indeed and Power Ministry is hosting a Word and Power Conference for men and women ages 13 and up from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. May 9. Speaker Sherri Wilson said the conference will cover the end of times and how to deal with the death of a loved one. Registration is free and must be completed by Monday. To register, visit freeinpower.com or call 763-5215 Religion Digest is compiled by CNJ staff writer Liliana Castillo. She may be contacted at 763-6991, or by e-mail: [email protected]...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Linda Woodall was the fourth woman to own Frame and Art Gallery. Linda Woodall, 62, was the fourth woman to own the Frame and Art Gallery. She owned the store for 12 years, longer than anyone else. But when it came time to retire, she was satisfied that she left the store in good hands. Customer to owner: I started as a customer at Frame and Art. I do a lot of needlework and cross stitch and often needed things framed. I was so particular that they hired me so I could take care of myself....
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis High School junior Jeremy House walks the tritacale crop daily at the high school’s to check the plants and sprinkler. Nobody told Landyn Graham that training his horses would be easy, but difficulty wasn’t enough of a deterrent. Graham, Clovis High School sophomore and Future Farmers of America reporter, has trained horses since sixth grade. “Training them myself is the only way I’ll get them the way I want them,” Graham said. His buckle-winning 3-year-old horse stood calmly nex...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Fire Marshal Allan Silvers, front to back, Battalion Chief Ike Burns and fireman Chris Elam inspect wiring under a deli case at Albertson’s Grocery Store Wednesday. Burns said there were no injuries and the store did not need to be evacuated. The Clovis Fire Department was called to a small electrical fire at Albertson's Grocery Store on Prince Street at 1:08 p.m. Battalion Chief Ike...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Linda Durant spent two years picking up trash and pulling weeds at the Clovis Area Transit building on Sixth and Axtell Streets. After setting down dated stacks of Tupperware containers stuffed with garbage and weeds to illustrate the problem, she stood and addressed the Clovis City Commission. “My name is Linda Durant and this is the trash I have picked up and weeds I’ve pulled off city property for the last month,” she said. Durant, a Clovis resident and business owner, had tried to conta...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Frank Oborny, right, helps student James Bruffett during a wood working class at Clovis Community College. After 30 years with the college, Oborny is retiring at the end of the spring semester. The end of the Clovis Community College’s spring semester will bring an end to Frank Oborny’s 30 year tenure with the college. Oborny began with the college’s building construction program in 1979. Oborny worked as a general contractor after being in the Air Force for over six years. He left the servi...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Kim Adams changes a bag of medicine for one of her patients at Plains Regional Medical Center’s Cancer Center. After years helping cancer patients, an award-winning nurse is planning ways to educate people about cancer at next month’s Relay for Life cancer-research fundraiser. Kim Adams, October 2008 winner of the New Mexico Excellence in Ambulatory Care award, is lending her experience to Relay For Life of Clovis by bringing educational programs to the event. She works in onocology a...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Little Texas took the stage Saturday at the Curry County Events Center as the closing show for the day of celebration. County manager Lance Pyle estimated that between 1,000 and 1,200 people attended the concert. The smell of homemade mashed potatoes and beef tips mingled with the sounds of a country fiddle at the Events Center on Saturday during the Curry County Centennial kick-off. The event served as the official grand opening for Curry County’s centennial celebrations, which will last a...
Saturday Food and clothing give away — 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m., Matt 25 Hope Center. Information: 763-4400. Women’s spiritual seekers conference — 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Central Baptist Church. Interdenominational concert — 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church. Information: 760-4071. Sunday Worship service — 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Central Baptist Church. Sunday school — 9:30 a.m., Living Stones Community Church of the Nazarene. Worship service — 10:30 a.m., Living Stones Community Church of the N...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Tonya Flores spends a large portion of her time watching her three sons play sports. Tonya Flores, 36, has spent the whole baseball season in the concession stand at Bell Park Field, watching what she can of her son Sebastian Flores...
Clovis seniors accepted into summer program Clovis High School senior Rosa Dodge and Elida High School senior Nicole Jasso have been selected as Golden Apple Pathway Scholars, according to a news release. Eighty-one New Mexico high school seniors applied for the scholarship opportunity, 56 were interviewed, and 50 were selected. Pathway scholars participate in a six-week summer institute which provides hands-on learning experiences for future careers in education. Clovis Schools launch parent-side Skyward Access Clovis...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis High School freshman campus students Kyla Vestal, left, and Shannon Spurgeon are working on centennial projects this year at the freshman campus. Current freshman, the class of 2012, will be the 100th class to graduate from high school in New Mexic Students at Clovis freshman campus are interviewing previous graduates as a project for the Centennial Graduates Initiative. The initiative is an event to mark New Mexico’s Centennial. The Class of 2012 marks 100 years of high school g...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo ENMU’s Anthony Ramos tries to break the tackle of Tillman Stevens during Saturday’s spring football scrimmage at Greyhound Stadium. BLACKWATER DRAW — Saturday’s spring football intrasquad scrimmage may have been no big deal to some of Eastern New Mexico University’s established veterans. But it was the first semi-regular game that Erett Grubbs played back at his old home stadium on Saturday morning. The sophomore lineman was part of the scrimmage, which is the first of thr...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Patricia Bazar of Clovis helps organize dresses Saturday during the prom dress drive help at Matt 25 Hope Center in Clovis. About 150 dresses are available for free to girls who want to go to prom, but can’t afford the expense that goes with it, acc Ty Caffrey is trying to help teenagers have the perfect prom, even if they can’t afford the high price tag. Caffrey organized a prom dress drive Saturday at Matt 25 Hope Center and partnered with Clovis Community College and Life Choice. T...
Ty Caffrey is trying to help teenagers have the perfect prom, even if they can’t afford the high price tag. Caffrey organized a prom dress drive Saturday at Matt 25 Hope Center and partnered with Clovis Community College and Life Choice. The drive provides area high school students with a free dress, accessories, and possibly a free hair style, nails and make-up for prom. “Prom is a big part of high school, but it can be a large expense,” she said. “It’s hard to fit that into a budget, especially now in this economy....
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Penny Bailey and Scott Henry with Central Baptist Church practice for the Easter musical the church will perform Saturday and Sunday. Celebrating Good Friday is essential to celebrating Easter, according to Immanual Lutheran Church pastor Scott Blazek. “It’s hard to celebrate Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, without spending time before the Calvary cross on Good Friday,” Blazek said. “We see the magnitude of God’s love and mercy and grace.” Blazek said Good Friday represents the core of the...
CNJ photo: Liliana Castillo Noel Hunt is excited about representing married women of new mexico as Mrs. New Mexico because she said married women don’t get enough credit. Noel Hunt, 22, isn’t working for the first time since she was 15. But her husband still says she has too much to do. As a mother, wife, full-time student at Eastern New Mexico University, and Mrs. New Mexico running for Mrs. United States, she has her plate full. Second go ‘round: I ran for Ms. Teen Roosevelt County and Ms. Teen Eastern New Mexico whe...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo The National Weather Service warned that the strong winds would result in areas of reduced visibility in blowing dust, which were visible most of the day. A strong wind gust is being blamed for the death of a Clovis man at the Southwest Cheese Plant Freedom New Mexico A spring wind storm that pounded eastern New Mexico Saturday with 65 mph gusts is being blamed for the death of a Clovis man. Juan R. Chavez, 35, died after a wind blast caught the loading door of a semi truck, slamming him into...
Freedom New Mexico: Liliana Castillo A 51-year-old Tucumcari truck driver and the man suspected of beating him to death and leaving his body in a ditch were drinking together at Webb’s Watering Hole and later Clovis City Limits, District Attorney Matt Chandler said. Police believe an argument after a night of drinking led a 24-year-old Roswell man to beat a 51-year-old truck driver to death and dump his body in a ditch east of Clovis. Brandon Barela was arrested Friday afternoon in Roswell and is charged with an open co...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Anthony Gutierrez parlayed four and a half years in corrections into a career as a bounty hunter. He didn’t like what he called “baby-sitting,” but he enjoyed working with the law. Anthony Gutierrez of Clovis spends time searching for bond jumpers, fishing with his four sons and playing softball with his friends. Anthony Gutierrez parlayed four and a half years in corrections into a career as a bounty hunter. He didn’t like what he called “baby-sitting,” but he enjoy...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis High School senior Amanda Sandoval unwraps a chocolate bar to melt for her chocolate covered no-bake cheesecake with berry coulis. Five students in her culinary arts class attended the ProStart New Mexico Invitational competition Wednesday. While mincing parsley, Kaylie Kemp never took her eyes off the sharp knife that she moved up and down over the lush greens. But as soon as she was done, her eyes flicked to the clock. The high school junior had all semester to learn how to cook. Now...
Saturday Food and clothing give away — 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m., Matt 25 Hope Center, 1200 Thornton St. Information: 763-4400. Sunday Sunday school — 9:30 a.m., Living Stones Community Church of the Nazarene Worship service — 10:30 a.m., Living Stones Community Church of the Nazarene Men’s non-denominational bible class — 9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m., North Plains Mall Cinema, 2809 N. Prince St., Clovis. Free coffee and donuts. Teacher: Don Reid. Morning worship — 9:45 a.m., Sunday School. Clovis Landmark M...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Teddy Guevara sponges down a car Saturday during the Applebuddies’ Relay for Life car wash in the Applebee’s parking lot. As Mike Nelson’s cherry red Chevy Suburban was being soaped up and sprayed down, he thought of when he could bring his other two vehicles to the Relay for Life car wash Saturday at Applebee’s. “If it’s something that’s a worthy cause, I’ll get involved,” he said. “You know those ‘Life is Good’ T-shirts? I have two or three of them.” Nelson, a truck drive...
Courtesy photo Grupo Eclipse of Clovis has been invited to perform at this week’s Tejano Music Awards in San Antonio, Texas. Local Tejano band Grupo Eclipse is headed to the Tejano Music Awards in San Antonio, Texas, this week. The group of five was invited to play at the event after New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and Oregon radio stations played their singles, “Porque Te Quiero,” which translates to “Why Do I Love You,” and “Taking a Chance,” a mix of Tejano and country. “Porque Te Quiero” was ranked 19 of the top 100...
